Friday, April 19, 2019

Tough Group in Woodbine’s Star Shoot Stakes

By Emily Shields

The second stakes of the Woodbine meet is the $100,000 Star Shoot Stakes for three-year-old fillies sprinting six furlongs. It features the likes of grade 1-placed My Gal Betty, dual stakes placed Sister Peacock, and the unbeaten Intanga Rose.

#1 Speedy Soul (10-1) is an unbeaten stakes winner here and has moved to the barn of Mark Casse. She has not run since August 29 of last year, but broke her maiden sprinting before adding the Muskoka Stakes. The daughter of Souper Speedy has had five published workouts since her return to training.

#2 Missmizz (6-1) won her first two starts at Tampa Bay Downs iN December and February on the grass before finishing seventh in her stakes debut for trainer Michael Stidham. This will be her first try on synthetic, but she gets Rafael Hernandez.

#3 Power Gal (Jpn) (8-1) was last seen running seventh in the Honeybee (G3) on the main track at Oaklawn March 9. The daughter of Empire Maker is Casse’s second starter here, she goes for Emma-Jayne Wilson. This filly won the Martha Washington two back going a mile.

#4 My Gal Betty (7-2) was second in the grade 1 Natalma here after being an impressive stakes winner sprinting on the grass last summer. She finished ninth in the Breeders’ Cup, then had time off before running in the grade 3 Herecomesthebride on the Gulfstream Park grass March 2. The daughter of Point of Entry has been working at Keeneland for trainer Roger Attfield; she has Gary Boulanger for the first time today.

#5 Sister Peacock (4-1) is unbeaten on this track, including a 7 ½ length allowance win sprinting here in November. She has since run in two stakes around two turns on Gulfstream’s turf and was second in both, beaten a length and a neck. Jesse Campbell will be up for Stuart Simon, who conditions the daughter of Real Solution. She likes the front end and figures to be rolling early.

#6 Si Si Tequila (8-1) is Casse’s third starter. She has not run since the meet ended in November, but was second by a neck in the Glorious Song that day over seven panels. She has only been worse than third once here in six tries and has tangled with several of the rivals in here today.

#7 Special for You (20-1) is one of three longshots on the board. The others are #8 Kettle Valley and #10 Malibu Dawn, who makes her first start for Gail Cox after being trained by Graham Motion.

#9 Intanga Rose (3-1) rounds out the logical contenders. The Ontario-bred daughter of Animal Kingdom last ran in September but worked well at Gulfstream over the winter. Sid Attard trains and Eurio Rosa Da Silva will ride. Her dam, Intangaroo, earned over $600,000 and was a grade 1 winner at Saratoga and Santa Anita.

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